Daily Scripture Analysis

  • Seventeenth Sunday – Year A – Ordinary Time

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Seventeenth Sunday – Year A – Ordinary Time Readings: I Kgs 3:5-12; Rom 8:28-30; Mt 13:44-52 1/ Reading I: RSV 1 Kings 3:5 At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.” 6 And Solomon said, “Thou hast shown great and steadfast love to thy servant David my father, because he walked before thee in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward thee; and thou hast kept for him this great and steadfast love, and hast … Read more

  • Saint James, the Apostle – July 25th

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Saint James – the Apostle – July 25th Readings: 2 Cor 4:7-15; Mt 20:20-28 Reading 1 (2 Cor 4:7-15): Brothers and sisters:We hold this treasure in earthen vessels,that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us.We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained;perplexed, but not driven to despair;persecuted, but not abandoned;struck down, but not destroyed;always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus,so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our body.For we who live are constantly being given up to deathfor … Read more

  • Friday – Sixteenth Week – OT2

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Friday – Sixteenth Week – OT2 Readings: Jer 3:14-17; Mt 13:18-23. Reading 1 (Jer 3:14-17): Return, rebellious children, says the LORD, for I am your Master; I will take you, one from a city, two from a clan, and bring you to Zion. I will appoint over you shepherds after my own heart, who will shepherd you wisely and prudently. When you multiply and become fruitful in the land, says the LORD, They will in those days no longer say, “The ark of the covenant of the LORD!” They will no … Read more

  • Thursday – Sixteenth Week – OT2

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thursday – Sixteenth Week – OT2 Readings: Jer 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13; Mt 13:10-17. 1/ First Reading: NAB Jeremiah 2:1 This word of the LORD came to me: 2 Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear! I remember the devotion of your youth, how you loved me as a bride, following me in the desert, in a land unsown. 3 Sacred to the LORD was Israel, the first fruits of his harvest; should anyone presume to partake of them, evil would befall him, says the LORD. 7 When I … Read more

  • Saint Mary Magdalene

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Saint Mary Magdalene – July 22nd Readings: Sg 3:1-4b or II Cor 5:14-17; Jn 10:1-2, 11-18. 1/ Reading 1 (Sg 3:1-4b): RSV Song of Solomon 3:1 Upon my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer. 2 “I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves.” I sought him but found him not. 3 The watchmen found me, as … Read more

  • Tuesday – Sixteenth Week – OT2

    Please press here to listen to the homily or download Tuesday – Sixteenth Week – OT2 Readings: Mic 7:14-15, 18-20; Mt 12:46-50. Reading 1 (Mic 7:14-15, 18-20): Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, That dwell apart in a woodland, in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. As in the days when you came from the land of Egypt, show us wonderful signs. Who is there like you, the God who removes guilt and pardons sin for the remnant of his inheritance. Who does not persist … Read more

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